Hotel-car for railways



G. M. PULLMAN.

. Hotel Car for Railways. No. 89,538. Patented April 27, .1869.

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UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. PULLMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOTEL-CAR FOR RAILWAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 89,538, dated April 27,1869.

' useful Improved Hotel-Car for Railways; and

I do hereby declare that the following; is a vfull, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, reference.being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification,in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of one side of theinterior of my improved hotelcar. car, taken through the middle of astate-room. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of one of thetransverse seats. Fig. trepresents a plan of one end of the car, showingthe location of 1 the state-rooms and passages. Fig. 5 represents a sideview of one of the movable chairs 2 represents a cross-section of thewith the cushions extended.

My improvements are designed to provide a convenient car in whichpassengers, and especially families, may ride, eat, and sleep; and theyconsist, first, in the location and arrangement of the state-rooms;second, in an improved movable and convertible chair; and, third, inproviding a sleeping-car with a kitchen and range or cooking apparatus.

A A, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, are state-rooms located near the ends of thecar. In the drawings two areshown at each end, and this number may beincreased or diminished. These rooms are located on one side of the car,the side forming one wall of the room, as shown at B, Fig. 4, and theyextend across the car nearly to the opposite side, leaving only apassage-way, C, Figs. 1 and 4, between the side of the car B andthepartition of the room D. There is no communication between The latterare entered by means of doors E E, opening from the middle aisle G andfrom the vestibule H in the end of the car.

If ladies and children, or families, wish to occupy the state-rooms,they can be entirely closed, and the other passengers and the employs ofthe train may pass around them; but if persons who are strangers to eachother are assigned to the different berths in these rooms, by leavingthe doors open at either end the passage-way is continued ,directlythrough the rooms, which then become part of the common apartment of thecar, or, in efiect, sections upon either side of the central aisle.

The passage-way between the side of the car and the rooms may pass tothe right of the rooms at one end of the car and to the left at theother end, as shown by C and C, Fig. l.

The number of rooms and of intermediate sections of seats and couchesmay be varied according to circumstances. For the purpose of furnishingthese rooms for the more perfeet accommodation of families or parties,they are provided with movable chairs K, Figs.

1, 2, and 5, which are of the size of large arm-chairs, designed to seata single person. These chairs may be turned upon one foot, L, as apivot, or they may be free to move about the room.

The seat and back frames M N, Figs. 1 and 5, of these chairs aremovable, so that at night, by placing two of the chairs opposite to andfacing each other, as shown in Fig. 1, and securing them in place byplacing the feet in sockets in the floor, or otherwise, and connectingthem by bars extending from one chair to the other at the level of thebottom of the seat-frames, as shown at P, Fig. 5, the seats may be drawnforward and the backs may be let down, Fig. 5, so as to unite with theseat and back of the opposite chair and form a couch suitable for oneperson.

My improved car is also provided with a kitchen, R, in which is locateda small cooking-stove or range for the preparation of meals for thepassengers. This kitchen is also provided with suitable shelves andboxes for provisions, while the closet S, on the opposite side of theaisle, may be used for table-furniture and linen.

The stove or range may be of vany suitable kind, as my invention doesnot relate to the details, but broadly to the combination, with asleeping-car, of a cooking-apartment for the preparation of the meals oftravelers, who are thus enabled to ride, sleep, and eat in the same car.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim therein as new is- 1. Astate-room or rooms located on one side .of a railway-oar, with passageson the opposite side of the car, and also longitudinally through theroom, so that the room may be isolated or thrown open as part of thecar, as may be desired.

2. A kitchen provided with a cooking apparatus, in combination with asleeping-car, for the purpose described.

GEO. M. PULLMAN.

Witnesses:

M. B. PIIILIPP, OHAs. W. ANGELL.

